The Irish standard., 1887-05-07

saturday, MAY 2, l6
old soldier, / believe that if th51e was
nothing left to men like Father Maher
and Denis Kilbride except their boots
they would fight still daughter and
cheers.) These evictions, instead of in
timldating the men of Luggacurran.
will have the effect of bringing every
man--perhaps ought not to say every
man, but every man worth his salt-on
the Barrow House part Of the property
into line with his fellow-tenants (chesrs.)
1 believe that from this night forward
the whole tenantry upon every part of
this Queens county estate will stand
united like wall of brass, and the more
Mr.. Trench persecutes and worries them
the more he will be knocking his own
head against that wall. and the head is
apt to suffer more than the wall in col
lisions of that sort daughter and cheers. J
You have made a demand far and far
away more moderate and more reason
able than some of the Sub Commission
ers have been scattering upon every es-
tate all round. You have entrenched
yourselves upon safe and moderate
ground, and within this entrenchment
you are unconquerable (cheers.) In a
fight of this kind I would back the Irish
people for staying power against Lord
Lansdowne or against the whole no.
bilitY and gentry put together. 1t is
just the difference between the hand
some rent office of the estate and the
Rock of Dunamase. The rent Office is
very snowy and ornamental, and the
rock is rough and homely one. But in
a question of time, when the paint is off
the rent Office, and when the rent office
is wreck and ruin and Lot a stone left
upon a stone, then the Rock of Duna-
mase will lift its head to heaven, as it
does to-day, without scar upon it
(hear, hear). So when the pride and
pomp of landlordism have crumbled for
ever from this land, the tenantry of
Luggacurren and the Irish race will
live and thrive and rule in this old land
of theirs, their own masters and their
own law-givers; and your children and
your children g children will bless your
name for evermore as the liberators of
the soil of Ireland loud cheers).
Mr.. j. B. Mullins, Manchester, having
spoken. the Rev. John Maher, G. c.,
Luggacurren, thanked the people of
Athy for their generous contributions
to the evicted tenants fund. He wished
to thank particularly the Protestant
people of Athy who had contributed
freely, and also the Protestant tenants
of Stradbally (cheers.) Mr.. Denis Kill
bride and Mr.. John Dunn addressed the
meeting, and the resolutions were car
ried unanimously
On Monday meeting of delegates of
the branches of the National League in
Queens county was held at the
Town Hall, Marlborough, and it was
called for the purpose of adopting some
practical measures to assist the evicted
tenants of Luggacurran, who are max
ing such a gallant stand against rack
rents and landlord tyranny The chair
was taken by the Very Rev. Father
Phelan, P. F., V. F., marlborough.
Tho ohoirnoon cold Tho ooooo;o,, f.>,.
something more substantial than SYM
pathy had now arisen, as a number of
tenants had been evicted.
The landlord they were fighting was
powerful man, and he had one of the
widest agents in Ireland. AS to the
Coercion Act now before Parliament, it
was a disgrace to England and an in
suit to Irishmen all the world over.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
Mr.. Richard Lalor, M. T., then
moved THAT we recognize in the ac-
tion of the Marquis of Lansdowne to-
wards his Luggacurran tenants the
same spirit and policy that has been
pursued by the landlords of Ireland
during the past 200 years-namely, rack
renting and eviction. That we approve
of the action of the Luggacurran ten
ants in adopting the Plan of Campaign,
the only policy which in the near future
can save the rack-rented tenants of Ire
land from determination, and eventual
ly abolish landlordism root and branch
out of Ireland. That collection be
made in each parish in the Queens
County on Sunday week, April "a, to as
sist the Luggacurran tenants in their
gallant struggle against rack-rents and
landlord oppression; that the Coercion
Bill which is now being rushed through
Parliament by the present hybrid Ad-
is only the expiring effort
of a mean and tyrannical faction, is op-
posed to the wishes Of the British ma
ton, and, if passed into law, should be
treated with scorn and contempt by the
Irish people," He said he was afraid
thew were not at the bottom of the had